CHOCOLATE AND APPLE CAKE
An easy and delicious recipe to reuse Easter eggs chocolate with fun! Chocolate and apple cake with ricotta cheese!
Attrezzature
- 22 cm mold
Ingredients
For the apple compote:
- 3 apples
- 4 tablespoons of brown sugar
- the zest of 1 lemon
For the cake:
- 100 g ricotta
- 110 g dark chocolate
- 100 g sugar
- 120 g butter at room temperature
- 4 eggs M
- 280 g oflour
- 20 g bitter cocoa
- 15 g baking powder
- 1 pinch of salt
To finish:
- 50 g chocolate chunks
Instructions
Prepare the apple compote:
- Peel the apples, core them and cut them into small pieces.
- Collect them in a saucepan together with the grated lemon zest and sugar, mix and cook over medium heat for 20 minutes.
- Blend everything very well with an immersion blender gettig a puree. Let cool completely.
Prepare the cake:
- While the compote cools, melt the chocolate in a double boiler or in the microwave and set aside.
- Then whip the soft butter with the sugar using an electric whisk for at least 10 minutes: you have to get a creamy mixture.
- Add the eggs and continue beating at medium-low speed for 5 minutes more.
- Take back the compote and weigh 300 gr (keep the rest in the fridge or freeze -see notes above-).
- Add the ricotta and melted chocolate to the compote and mix with a spatula getting a homogeneous mixture.
- Add the previously prepared egg, butter and sugar base to this base and mix with the whisk at minimum speed.
- Finally add the flour, baking powder, cocoa and a pinch of salt.
- Turn on the oven at 180 °C.
- Grease and flour a 22 cm mold and pour the mixture leveling with a spatula.
- Complete by adding the chocolate chunks on the surface.
- Bake in the central part of the oven for 50-60 minutes.
- Do the toothpick test to check the cooking!
Notes
With the doses I've given you, you'll get more compote than necessary, which is why it will be useful for you to know that you can also freeze it or, obviously, you can use it as a basis for a healthy snack for your children (or for yourself of course)!